Word: barcikowski
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...hard-liners blame the present crisis not only on ex-Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, who cooperated with Solidarity, but on some of the major figures in the current leadership. Among them: Kazimierz Barcikowski and Hieronim Kubiak, both Politburo members, and Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski. Since all three are close to Jaruzelski, who is thought to side with the moderates, the general also seems to be an indirect target. But Jaruzelski's position appears to be secure: not only does he control the army, he seems to enjoy the full confidence of the Kremlin. On the eve of the plenum...
...continued to crumble from within. Since the crackdown began, 4,000 party members in Warsaw alone have turned in their cards in protest. Gdansk Party Leader Tadeusz Fiszbach, a leading liberal, resigned last week. Many others are likely to be expelled as the party executes what Politburo Member Kazimierz Barcikowski called a "purge of opportunists, careerists and immoral people." Totally discredited in the eyes of the public, the party now has an estimated membership of only 2 million, compared with some 3 million before Solidarity was organized in August 1980. Since martial law was declared, there have been signs that...
...time being, Poland is run by an eight-or nine-man group under Jaruzelski's leadership. It includes four other army generals plus Politburo Members Barcikowski and Stefan Olszowski, a leading hardliner. Another prominent civilian member is Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, a liberal by party standards who nonetheless endorsed the crackdown...
...There is no room in Poland today for two separate power centers, thundered Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Added Politburo Member Kazimierz Barcikowski: "Some extremists look for success not in trade union work but in maintaining a permanent pressure on state authorities. These are very dangerous tactics." Those words were spoken last week at a meeting of regional Communist Party leaders in Warsaw. They appeared to signal the start of a hardening line to ward Solidarity, Poland's federation of independent trade unions, as the government and workers engaged in a perilous new round of labor confrontations...
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